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• State corruption

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/state-corruption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 Explore the 2022 Transparency International Inde x. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.

• The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/10/the-charles-dickens-illustrated-gallery/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2023 A new online collection presents all of the original illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels. It is a a project of Dr Michael John Goodman, a free-lance researcher.

• Medieval women’s wills 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/22/medieval-womens-wills/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2023 Medieval women’s wills    The British Library’s Medieval and Renaissance Women project has recently digitised a number of wills of women from the 13th to...

• Black Mothers in the Forefront: Struggles and Resistance in the 1970s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/27/black-mothers-in-the-forefront-struggles-and-resistance-in-the-1970s/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 27, 2023 A n online exhibition from the Black Cultural Archives   Images and oral histories which focus on activism by black mothers in the UK in the 1970s.

• Migrant Rights Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/migrant-rights-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 Created by the Migrants Rights Initiative , the database maps indicators for protection of migrant rights in 65 nations worldwide. See how your country compares.

• Coronations through history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/05/coronations-through-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 5, 2023 The National Archives has a mini coronations website which includes images of seals, phots and discussions of government documents.

• Medieval and Renaissance Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/medieval-and-renaissance-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 Medieval and Renaissance Women: charters and rolls   The British Library blog has a full list of digitised charters and rolls from their medieval collections.

• GC wealth website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/gc-wealth-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 A new tool for understanding wealth inequality which has been developed by Stone Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It comprises data and a library of research papers.

• Free to view LGBTQIA+ books

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/19/free-to-view-lgbtqia-books/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2023 The publisher Taylor and Francis have made a collection of LBGTQIA-related books free to view for pride month.

• Social mobility: the next generation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/04/social-mobility-the-next-generation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2023 First of a series of reports by the Sutton Trust on social mobility. This first report looks at secondary school students and is called Lost Potential at 16.